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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey an ongoing effort to map the universe by an international collaboration that includes Penn State scientists has developed a new system of robots for their telescopes that will replace a time-intensive manual process. The new system will improve the collaboration's ability to study galaxies and black holes in our galaxy.
Theoretically, the merging of two galaxies could result in what is known as a supermassive binary black hole, but so far astronomers have not unequivocally detected one of these events. Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Michael Eracleous is on the forefront of the hunt.